I went into directing having observed and learned from the best. There was a certain standard of procedure. I found that I… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Rising living standards - whether in a village, a region, a nation, or the world - depend first on specialization: on letting… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
The beauty standards had nothing to do with me in Mexico. It was such a bizarre, dire time for my hair. I… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
A genius has perhaps scarcely ever appeared amongst the negroes, and the standard of their morality is almost universally so low that… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
You think homosexuality is disgusting? Then, it follows as the night the day, that you find sex disgusting, for there is nothing… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Look, I'm a conservative, I'm a very conservative guy, and - and the Trump campaign is making your job over at NBC… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I am by no means alone within the family or the company in being ashamed and sickened by Roger Ailes’s horrendous and… — Matthew Freud Copy Share Image
There have been screenwriters who I'm sure would gladly kill me, because I've been very fast and loose with their work, because… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
It is a great problem for the true international agenda of human rights that the United States, uniquely among industrialised countries, has… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice--there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community. To discover how… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Women who work with animals hear this all the time: that their love for animals must arise out of a sublimated child-rearing… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
The consumer wants food to be as cheap as possible. The producer wants it to be as expensive as possible. Both want… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There is a strong conservative instinct in the average man or woman, born of the hereditary fear of life, that prompts them… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The color of his pallor, however, was a curiously basic white - unmixed, that is, with the greens and yellows of guilt… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I think it's fine that there are five million people who are watching [politics on TV], and obviously I'm happy they are… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
The sense that in his mother’s view, he had let down his family just by being who he was… was a failure… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
It was Bill Clinton who once pithily captured the contrast between the two parties when it came to selecting a presidential standard-bearer:… — Mark Halperin Copy Share Image
The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Harass someone on Bumble, and you're banned for life. Harsh? Maybe. But I feel strongly that we won't end misogyny until we… — Whitney Wolfe Herd Copy Share Image
I think we all waste a lot of time measuring ourselves up against impossible standards in lots of ways. We need to… — Kate Grenville Copy Share Image
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If I was a male, I had the right to, when I stepped out the door, take off my shirt. It's not… — Andrea Jones Copy Share Image
As societies continue to loosen their standards regarding what is appropriate female and male behavior, I think we are going to realize… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
I believe that Harvard can have, and must have, a strong affirmative action program that reflects our commitment to equal opportunity while… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
I have a good supporting staff around me and good teammates encouraging me every single day to perform on the field and… — Alphonso Davies Copy Share Image
Getting kids into the kitchen preparing the food they and their families will eat results in them viewing food in an entirely… — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
The right for the right's sake is the motto which everyone should take for his own life. With that as a standard… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
The Bassbone is just what I have been looking for... I can maintain the integrity of two instruments on stage or in… — Nathan East Copy Share Image
One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations and… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
It was a standard fantasy when you fell in love to imagine you could go back in time and find your beloved… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God,… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
At the start of every season, I always asked myself - am I meeting my own standards? Can I still do it?… — Philipp Lahm Copy Share Image
The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing… — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
People whose terms go for five years or longer, like FCC commissioners. That's a higher standard. Then district judges, who are appointed… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Many women have made the mistake of changing their beliefs to accommodate their work; it must be the other way around. No… — Mary Kay Ash Copy Share Image